The Dean of York has received hate mail as part of an increasingly bitter row
over the final resting place of Richard III. Hugh Bayley, the MP for York
Central, told the House of Commons that the Very Rev Vivienne Faull had
passed abusive letters to the cathedral’s police authorities.

“I received many letters and e-mails from members of the public about this,
supporting burial in York,” he said. “Most are thoughtful and well argued
and based on scientific facts but some are frankly inflammatory, and talking
yesterday to the Dean of York, some that she has received at the